With just three appearances under his belt he’s just behind Made in Chelsea star, Georgia ‘Toff’ Toffolo, as favourite to win the 17th series. This has made him frequently trend on Twitter and become the subject of appreciation pages and memes all over social-media.

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Though it is a little known fact that the Johnson family have Cornish roots. Stanley regularly travelled with his siblings when his mother, Irene, took them to visit their grandfather at his holiday home in St Ives.

In his 2009 autobiography, ‘Stanley, I Presume’, the Somerset man wrote fondly about his memories and understanding of Cornwall during childhood – including his birth in Penzance.

Stanley’s grandfather – Stanley F. Williams – had fought in the First World War and lived in Bromley, Kent. Though he owned a holiday home in Carbis Bay, which became his principal residence when the Second World War broke out.

He had married Marie Louise de Pfeffel in Paris in 1882, but she died just after Stanley Johnson was born after an allergic reaction to a bee-sting.

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The I’m a Celeb star was born on August 18 1940, a date –unknown to him at the time – had great significance and has been referred to as a key turning point during the Battle of Britain.

On one of his birthdays his younger daughter Julia gifted him a copy of The Times, published on his birth date. It recorded the demise of more than three hundred German fighter planes on that one afternoon, against the loss of fewer than one hundred British aircraft.

“Newly swaddled in Penzance general hospital, I knew nothing of these great events”, wrote Stanley in his first memoir. “I didn’t even know that there was a war on.”

Stanley came to be born in Penzance as his mother was visiting her father at the time. When she went into labour Stanley’s grandfather called for his chauffeur William to fetch his red Daimler ‘Poppy’.

Owing to fuel rationing the car had very few outings, but Stanley’s imminent arrival was deemed a necessary excursion and they set off immediately.

Days later Stanley and Irene were picked up by William and taken back to the Cornish home, known as Trevose View owing to the view of the lighthouse to Trevose Head on a clear day.

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With Stanley’s father assigned on active duty to RAF Coastal Command, Irene and the children spent extended periods during the war at her parent’s Carbis Bay home.

In his memoir he recounted fond stories of Trevose View, including watching the occasional gannet flying out to sea and his grandfather cooking fish cakes for breakfast.

His mother would also take Stanley and his siblings on regular summer trips to Cornwall after the war had ended.

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Stanley described his grandfather as “a thrifty soul”, who “elevated beachcombing into a high art”.

Two or three days a week he would set out on a long walk to the beaches of Lelant or Hayle, returning with a canvas sack filled with bits or driftwood or lumps of coal washed up by the tide.

“As we grew older, he would invite us to accompany him”, recalled Stanley. “The quickest route to the Hayle estuary was along the single-track branch line running from St Erth to St Ives. I remember hopping from sleeper to sleeper between the shiny rails, then stepping smartly to the side to let the train go by.

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“Sometimes when you were in the deep cutting between Carbis Bay and Lelant, you would hear the chug of the engine and the shrill whistle long before you saw the train. Or you could put your ear to the rail and sense the vibrations even further.”

Occasionally his grandfather would find large white shells on the beach and he would pop these in his canvas bag too.

He amassed quite a collection over time, which he used to form the words CARBIS BAY on the grassy embankment of the nearest station.

Stanley Johnson has been revealed as one of the contestants for I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! 2017. (Image: PA)

“People come here from all over, even from Birmingham”, he reportedly told Stanley Jr. “Now they know which station to get off at.”

Boris’s dad claimed in 2009 that the shells are “amazingly” still in place today, serving their intended purpose.

He also spoke of his pleasure that the St Erth to St Ives train has survived despite regular attempts to close it down.

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Stanley Williams died in 1955 and the first his grandson knew of it was when he read a notice in the Daily Telegraph, before he had received word from parents.

Stanley Johnson, who now lives in West Nethercote Winsford when he’s not in the Australian outback, has gone on to live a busy life – having been involved in just under 30 literary works.

One of his nine novels, The Commissioner, was turned into a 1988 film starring John Hurt.

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He is considered an expert on environmental and population issues, he was Conservative MEP for Wight and Hampshire East from 1979 to 1984 and is a former employee of the World Bank and the European Commission.

We all know which we he campaigned in the recent EU Membership Referendum, obviously.

As the ITV series continues no doubt we will learn more about Stanley’s backstory. It’s not know for sure whether he still holidays in Cornwall, but it is known that his son got a mixed reaction when he visited to campaign earlier this year.